Early in the show, she walked to a table on the stage to get a drink from a clear plastic bottle and announced, “It’s not liquor, I promise. … But there is a [champagne] bottle up there and I can’t make any promises. Joking, joking, joking.”

At one point, Carey’s makeup artist and hairstylist came out for touch-ups and the makeup artist handed her a glass of champagne. “This is what happens,” she cracked. “They force it down my throat.”

Later, while singing “Emotions,” she emphasized the word “intoxicated” in the lyrics.

Despite a few glitches – she admitted she didn’t know the set list at one point, and also restarted “We Belong Together” after apparently forgetting the lyrics – Carey thrilled the audience, not to mention her husband, Nick Cannon, who made a brief appearance on stage during “The Impossible,” the song he inspired.

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